Corvinus university has become a dedicated entrepreneurship educator

This year, Corvinus University of Budapest concluded a two-year data-driven business development project with the University of Glasgow and the Vrije University of Amsterdam as academic partners. The EIT Accelerate initiative was supported by the European Union’s Horizon programme and the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary, with STAC.ac, a leading Scottish technology accelerator, acting as a technical partner. 

One of the main objectives of the project was to increase the entrepreneurial skills of the university students and staff. Interested students and employees were given the opportunity to learn basic entrepreneurship and start-up skills through an online course, mainly in the field of data-driven advanced solutions. Selected teams of students, already with a well-founded entrepreneurial idea, were given the opportunity to gain in-depth, face-to-face experience in international workshops at the sites of the consortium participants. What’s more, student teams and university colleagues were also given opportunities to receive tailored support through a targeted mentoring programme. 

Another important part of the project was to create the conditions for an entrepreneurial university in general. In this context, a series of international workshops were organised for the university’s start-up theme-focused staff.  

“The programme has provided an excellent opportunity to bring together the ongoing business development initiatives at Corvinus, to adopt a unified approach and to incorporate our recent experiences into the development of Corvinus University of Budapest. It is partly thanks to this project that we have successfully launched the Corvinus Entrepreneurship Platform and the Corvinus Boost student entrepreneurship development programme.”

– said Péter Fehér, Head of International Relations of Corvinus.  

The project has created a strong international network, which will open up further European opportunities for Corvinus to collaborate in the future. The initiative has contributed to making Corvinus University an innovative and entrepreneurial institution, able to develop the entrepreneurial competences of students and employees and to offer data-driven solutions to business problems.

Photo: Group of colleagues from Corvinus at the fourth and final workshop of EIT Digital Accelerate project in April, 2024 at Adam Smith Business School, at Glasgow University.